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Congress should begin inquiry of Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood officials have cried foul over an expose by an anti-abortion group. Why, the Center for Medical Progress has been harassing them for years and has released only carefully edited videotapes in its campaign, Planned Parenthood officials whine.

But editing can do only so much to change the context of the situation being recorded.

And in the two videos that have been released recently it is clear Planned Parenthood officials were eager to talk about selling body parts from aborted fetuses.

That is illegal under federal law.

In the first video, a Planned Parenthood official who thought she was meeting with potential buyers of fetal body parts explained how to avoid damaging certain organs in abortions.

In the second video, a different Planned Parenthood official noted abortion procedures can be modified to provide intact fetuses.

Planned Parenthood insists the videos are “a campaign of corporate espionage.”

Note the language, coming as it does from a very big business posing as a public service provider.

Obviously, the videos should have prompted Attorney General Loretta Lynch to launch an investigation of Planned Parenthood. That has not happened – so Congress should begin its own inquiry.

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